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| NC restaurants can serve indoors in ‘modest’ rules changes |
| Thursday, May 21, 2020 |
| RALEIGH — Gov. Roy Cooper is letting North Carolina restaurants, barbershops and salons welcome patrons inside starting this holiday weekend, announcing on Wednesday the loosened rules because he says state COVID-19 trends remain largely stable. But bars, gyms and indoor entertainment venues will remain closed five more weeks. The Democratic governor |
| Middle class not a level playing field for black people |
| Wednesday, May 13, 2020 |
| DURHAM – The “middle class” can be hard to define. A new report from Duke University suggests that for African Americans, it’s simply hard to find – and that’s in the best of circumstances. The paper from researchers at Duke’s Samuel DuBois Cook Center for Social Equity finds that when using wealth as the defining |
